Martin wins open seat, incumbents reelected in D202 election
John Martin secured an open seat on the Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education Tuesday, replacing outgoing member Gretchen Livingston, according to unofficial results from the...
View ArticleAnderson, Pinkard, Opdycke and Wymer pull ahead in D65 election
Patricia Anderson, Nichole Pinkard, Maria Opdycke and Andrew Wymer lead the race for the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education, according to unofficial results from the Cook County...
View ArticleYanow, Toussaint, Eimer take the lead in Oakton College Board of Trustees...
Wendy Yanow, Marie Lynn Toussaint and Micah Eimer lead the Oakton College Board of Trustees election, according to unofficial election results from the Cook County Clerk’s office. As of 10:30 p.m....
View ArticleDistrict 65 board discusses sustainability, school closure plans
Evanston/Skokie School District 65’s Committee of the Whole explored several looming initiatives Monday, including a new sustainability plan and efforts to speak with families ahead of planned school...
View ArticleD202 board approves discipline improvement plan, hears extracurricular report
The Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education approved a new Discipline Improvement Plan at its Monday night meeting, aiming to reduce racial disparities in out-of-school...
View ArticleQuiana McNeal named new ETHS principal
Evanston Township High School District 202 selected Quiana McNeal as the next principal of ETHS, the district announced in a Monday news release. McNeal currently serves as Director of Curriculum and...
View ArticleCode It! Challenge offers Evanston middle schoolers a path into STEM
Adventures in ancient Greece. Races down snowy mountains. Battles through waves of enemies. These were the basis of some of the 58 games submitted to the third annual Code It! Challenge, according to...
View ArticleNewly elected school board members pledge increased community engagement
When SESP Prof. Nichole Pinkard learned she had won a seat on the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education, she said she felt tremendous gratitude for her supporters — and a sense of...
View ArticleSchool walkability, maintenance dominate D65 closure criteria meetings
Around 140 community members shared their priorities for school closures and consolidations at three community meetings held by Evanston/Skokie School District 65 between April 10 and April 15....
View Article‘There is no greater privilege’: McNeal reflects on path to ETHS, plans to...
Incoming Evanston Township High School Principal Quiana McNeal said she noticed a troubling pattern while working as a prosecutor in Minnesota: as students in her community fell behind in reading, they...
View Article‘They’re going in with a sledgehammer’: Federal policies threaten Evanston...
The Trump administration’s closure of Chicago’s regional Head Start office and planned elimination of federal funding for Head Start programs has left many low-income Evanston families in limbo and...
View ArticleETHS teachers remain committed to ‘honest’ science, history lessons amid...
Even after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting schools from providing gender-affirming care or teaching “anti-American” ideologies, one Evanston Township High School teacher...
View ArticleYoung scientists and NU graduate students cross paths at elementary school...
Fifth-grader Kira Hunt wanted to find out whether paper color had an effect on her classmates’ performance on math problems. She hypothesized that students would perform with more speed and accuracy...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Education launches discrimination investigation into...
The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into Evanston/Skokie School District 65 over alleged discrimination in its policies Thursday. According to a DOE press release, the...
View ArticleD65 board updates policies to include sustainability plan, swears in new members
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education unanimously updated district policies to include its sustainability plan at its Committee of the Whole meeting Monday evening. The board also...
View Article‘We light fires’: The Trade Collective connects students to trade careers
In what was once a car dealership less than half a mile from Evanston Township High School, a new kind of spark is catching fire — not from engines, but through the work at The Trade Collective. “We...
View ArticleETHS teacher reprimanded by administrators over ‘Jewish acts of dissent’...
Community members at Monday’s Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education meeting decried school administrators’ reprimand of an ETHS teacher for displaying a “Jewish acts of dissent”...
View ArticleQ&A: Former D65 board member Donna Wang Su talks centering students,...
Editor’s Note: This story is part of a series of exit interviews for former District 65 board members. Donna Wang Su, a former Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education member, concluded...
View ArticleD65 board approves inaugural Foster School principal, community advocates for...
The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education heard from district stakeholders about issues at three of its schools Monday night. The board also unanimously approved Superintendent Angel...
View ArticleFormer D202 board student representative champions ETHS Hispanic affinity space
Last fall, school administrators informed the Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education that about one in 10 Hispanic or Latine students reported feeling like they don’t belong at...
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